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Pros

It does its job. It works exceptionally. Not a fan of the enclosure, but works well. I have two asus gaming laptops and the 5 year old laptop works and runs faster overall then the 2 year old one.

Nero platinum is a full-size dvd burner that works with windows and osx out of the box. While it is on the big side the performance it gives makes it worth it. I plan to make a dedicated rpi burning station using this drive and a rpi 4 cm and set this...  Read More

Using as backup for data. It reads and writes blu-ray discs.



Cons

Drive consistently disconnects from computer. Only able to reconnect drive by computer restart or disconnecting cables and reconnecting. The eject button is hard to see as it looks like part of the case. It has constant read errors, even on the old bl...  Read More

Customer support is even worse. You fill out a checklist of information (half of which is not even pertinent to your problem) before you can even get support. Only reason i won't give it a 1 is because it did eventually work on my employer's pc. It is...  Read More

When it works, it's fairly flawless. After three months this thing is toast. It runs hot, smells the electronic smoke-like smell of an overwhelmed unit. This tells me that this machine is weak; not powerful as it boasts.

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Quality


I have used almost 300 times since i bought it and it has a 100% success rate and is still going strong.


I've used it to successfully burn a 25 gb and a 100 gb verbatim (so yeah, only 2 disks so far), no issues so far.


It reads every disc i put into it even the double-sided ones (reads both sides after flipping it over).


Really a shame pc's have completely rejected physical media from a system-side.

Competitiveness


So i have bought several other less expensive external cd,dvd,blueray drives in the past and had many issues with them.


Via itunes i tested this against an lg bp50nb40 slim.

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    external, front, new and still.
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  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 2,112 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 10 2025.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Bought a new computer and since so many hardware makers dont include optical disk drives or even have them available as an option i decided to pick up an external drive


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I wanted something name brand with bluray support


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    One note the eject button is sortof hidden


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its the right corner when viewed from the front


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It also isnt powered by usb but by external adapter


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its about the size of a vhs tape and wicked fast

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